Coarse or twisted silk looks coarse in this stitch, as may be seen by comparing the petal D in the sampler, Illustration 36, with the petal in twisted silk here given (38).
Like buttonhole, it may be worked solid, as in the leaf and petal forms on the sampler, Illustration 25, but it is better suited to cover narrow than broad surfaces.
The outline of a petalis first worked, and successive rows of darning follow the lines of the flower, expressing to some extent its form.
Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.
It had a spotless bluish blade, not unlike a petal of the blue lotus, and a beautiful hilt shining with brilliancy by the lustre of the jewels which adorned it.
No tree is here spreading its thick foliage, the sheltering shade of which might invite to sit down and rest, nor is here any lake to be found fit for bathing in its water as blue and as pure as a petal of a blue lotus.
Then with his delicate hands of a rich lustre, like that of the petal of the white lotus, and embellished with their fingers resplendent like jewel ornaments, he took him up himself and showed him to the Celestials.
Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate.
An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.
A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
The wild rose of her cheeks made rivalry for an instant with the richer garden blooms, and the subsiding warmth left a pearly translucency as of a lily petal against the light.
Her work in the City warehouse was unexacting; she had even a faint impress of rose-petal on each cheek, and her eye was excellently clear.
The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.
The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.
The man pulled a petal, Kurent pulled one, and the third petal remained unowned.
Sibyl repeated this nonsense with extreme gusto, and when the final petal on the large daisy proclaimed that "twelve he marries," she flung the stalk at Rochester and laughed gaily.
Wasn't it sweet of the marguerite daisy to give Mr. Rochester just the right petal at the end; wasn't it luck?
The dewdrop morn may fall from off the petal of the sky, But all the deck is wet with blood and stains the crystal red.
At the base of each petal there is a queer little stiff cluster of sterile filaments, like a tiny green hand.
The six sepals, petals, and stamens are all opposite, that is, with a petal in front of each sepal and a stamen in front of each petal.
Each petal has two little crests, which form a pretty "crown" in the throat of the corolla.
The corolla is from one and a half to three inches long, slightly irregular, white with a broad stripe of warm-yellow on the upper petal and often all the petals striped with pink.
It is of course arbitrary to call it a leaf, for since it is continually varying it is at one time a leaf, and at another a stalk, and then a petal or a sepal, and so forth.
I do it not with intent, but I waken to realization with the petal of Trumpet Honeysuckle in my hand and its drop of ambrosia on my lips.
They have the party-colored petal of the existing strain of English Pansies, distinct from the French and German Pansies, and I doubt not are the descendants of the cherished garden children of the English settlers.
There will occasionally appear a tiny Lilac flower, usually a white Lilac, with five divisions of the petalinstead of four--this is a Luck Lilac.
It was a matter of Lilac-luck-etiquette that the lover's name should be pronounced mentally before the petal was swallowed.
Seven petals and each petal seven dyes, The stem is gilded and the root in blood: That came of thee.
You could cut the petal of a Buttercup into two equal parts; it would be almost impossible to do this with the lobes of the Periwinkle blossom.
Also each petal had a spot of darker yellow in the centre of the blossom.
At the centre of the blossom, where the petals meet, each petal is marked with a spot of darker yellow.
You find one large standard petal which stands erect, rather a long, narrow petalin this plant.
These flowers have five glossy white petals, and each petal has a yellow patch at the foot.
The fifth petal is much larger, and the narrow end of this broad petal is shaped like a round tube.
At the base of each petal you find a small honey pouch, which the bees love to visit.
They are long and rather narrow, and each petal has a deep notch in the outer edge.
The flowers have five petals, and each petal has V-shaped notches cut in the outer edge.
But when the flowering time is past, these three petals grow broad and oval, and become thicker, and at the base of each petal you see a tiny swelling, which is the seed.
The petals seem very similar to those of the Trefoils, but each petal ends in a long claw, and these claws are hidden in the cup formed by the sepals.
In the Heartsease the broadest petal has a very small tube at the narrow end, the same as in the Dog Violet.
The back of each petal is stained with bright green, except round the edge, where it remains white.
Each petal has a notch in the outer edge, and there are two orange-coloured streaks running from the base.
But the petal is much broader at the other end, and it is round, with a tiny nick in the outer edge.
One broad petal stands up highest and is called 'the Standard.
Notice that all the flowers face one way, and that in each flower the largest yellow petal is daintily streaked with purple.
Do you happen to know, when there are only four stamens, whether it is thepetal or sepal-facers which are preserved?
That is to say, it leaves it open for a critic to assert that the vessels which enter the sides of the labellum are lateral vessels of the petal and do not necessarily represent petaloid stamens.
I know not whether botanists consider each petal and stamen an individual; if so, there seems to me no especial difficulty in the case, but if a flower-bud is a unit, are not their flowers very strange?
This anomaly [in Habenaria] is so far of importance, as it throws some doubt on the view which I have taken of the labellum being always an organ compounded of one petal and two petaloid stamens.
Butterflies and dragon-flies disport in countless numbers, flying over a cool stretch of lotus or settling on the purple petal of an iris.
It is a point worthy of emphasis because it reveals a temperament charged with a supreme love of the beautiful, this craving for a petal that shall never wither, a colour that shall never fade.
Another slight variation from this would be to work the lines of chain stitch in different shades of colour, and so get each petal gradually either lighter or darker towards its base; this gives a very pretty effect.
They frequently work each petal of a complicated flower separately, leaving as a division, between each one and the next, a fine line of material firmly and clearly drawn.
The reason was simply that they had not seen yet The Major Key that fiery-hearted rose as to which we watched in private the formation of petal after petal and flame after flame.
The monster had a rose of its own, petal for petal the same!
He would not have given his rose for all the pearls on the canopy, nor one white petal of his rose for the throne itself.
